Poker Dealing Error On The Flop Or Turn
It is inevitable that there will be dealer errors at your home poker game. Chances are you don’t have a professional poker dealer, and also that you are drinking. Although there are some steps you can take to minimize common dealing mistakes, like having one person deal a whole orbit, what should you do for different mis-deals?
A Card On The Flop Turned Over But Not Exposed
If you have sticky poker cards, the dealer can often grab four cards on the flop instead of three. He will peel off three cards, but there will be one sticking the the back of another card. Often if this happens the 4th card won’t be exposed on the flop, because it is still sticking to the back of one of the other cards. If you do get an extra card turned over but not exposed, the solution is easy. Since the card was not revealed, just leave it where it is unrevealed and finish playing out the hand normally. Burn another card and the deal the turn, burn a card and deal the river.
“The Deck Is Compromised”
If you run into a poker player who is upset because “the deck is compromised” and that isn’t how the poker hand was supposed to play out, then use the 3 cards that were LOGICALLY going to be on the flop if there wasn’t a poker mis-deal, show the 4 card to everyone at the table, and that becomes the burn card before the turn.
Catering to the superstitious people who insist on playing a hand “as it was fated to be” does seem annoying at times, but you should remember that those superstitious people are the same people who donate at a poker game, so appeasing them during a poker mis-deal isn’t a bad idea.
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